unnerve (verb)

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• unnerve — ► VERB ▪ deprive of courage or confidence. DERIVATIVES unnerving adjective …   English terms dictionary

• unnerve — UK US /ʌnˈnɜːv/ verb [T] ► to make someone feel nervous or less confident: »Talk of an economic slowdown has so far failed to unnerve American markets. be unnerved by sth »Investors were unnerved by recent profit warnings …   Financial and business terms

• unnerve — verb a) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble. to unnerve the arm b) To upset. I was greatly unnerved by this …   Wiktionary

• unnerve — verb deprive of courage or confidence. Derivatives unnerving adjective unnervingly adverb …   English new terms dictionary

• unnerve — verb (T) to upset or frighten someone so that they lose their confidence or their ability to think clearly: Her first encounter with the boss unnerved her. unnerving adjective …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• unnerve — verb the bleakness of his gaze unnerved her Syn: demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, daunt, alarm, frighten, dismay, disconcert, discompose, perturb, upset, discomfit, take aback, unsettle, disquiet, fluster, agitate …   Thesaurus of popular words

• unnerve — transitive verb Date: 1601 1. to deprive of courage, strength, or steadiness 2. to cause to become nervous ; upset • unnervingly adverb Synonyms: unnerve, enervate, unman, emasculate mean to deprive of strength or vigor and the capacity for… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• unnerve — UK [ʌnˈnɜː(r)v] / US [ʌnˈnɜrv] verb [transitive] Word forms unnerve : present tense I/you/we/they unnerve he/she/it unnerves present participle unnerving past tense unnerved past participle unnerved to make someone nervous or frightened Derived… …   English dictionary

• unnerve — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. unhinge, disconcert, frighten, rattle (inf.), give the jitters. See fear, impotence, excitability. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. frighten, unman, dishearten, enervate, discourage; see also weaken 2 ,… …   English dictionary for students

• unnerve — un|nerve [ ʌn nɜrv ] verb transitive to make someone nervous or frightened ╾ un|nerv|ing adjective ╾ un|nerv|ing|ly adverb …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• unnerve — [[t]ʌ̱nnɜ͟ː(r)v[/t]] unnerves, unnerving, unnerved VERB If you say that something unnerves you, you mean that it worries or troubles you. [V n] The news about Dermot had unnerved me... [V n] Tony was unnerved by the uncanny familiarity of her… …   English dictionary